Beefwood Parish, New South Wales

Beefwood Parish, New South Wales is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Yungnulgra County in far North West New South Wales.[1][2]

Parish map, 1914

Geography

The Parish an arid landscape. Beefwood is almost unpopulated, with less than two inhabitants per square kilometer.[3] The nearest town is Whitecliffs several km to the north west.

The parish has extremely hot summers and mild winters. Summers usually exceed 36 °C. Winters are usually around 17°C. The annual average rainfall is 249.7 millimetres (9.8 in) which would make it a semi-arid climate except that its high evapotranspiration, or its aridity, makes it a desert climate. The parish has a Köppen climate classification of BWh (Hot desert).[4]

Beefwood is at 31°08′44″S 143°13′23″ in Central Darling Shire.

History

The Parish is on the traditional lands of the Wandjiwalgu,[5][6] Aboriginal peoples.[7]

In 1838 Thomas Mitchell (explorer) travelled down the nearby Darling River.

Charles Sturt passed through the Wandjiwalgu lands during 1845,[8]

In 1861 the Burke and Wills expedition passed nearby.[9]

Opal was discovered in the area in the late 19th century.

References
  1. "Yungnulgra". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  2. Historic map of Yungnulgra County.
  3. NASA Earth Observations: Population Density”. NASA/SEDAC. Archived 9 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen–Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11: 1633–1644. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. ISSN 1027-5606. (direct: Final Revised Paper)
  5. David R Horton,Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATS and Sinclair Merz Knight 1996
  6. Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University Press. p196.
  7. David R Horton (creator), Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, and Auslig/Sinclair Knight Merz, 1996.
  8. Sturt's Central Australian Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.
  9. The Burke and Wills Expedition Archived 1 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine.


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